I Wanna Get Started With You

Pushin’ ever westward, across the great divide

Beyond the darling river

Towards the outback sky

The lawless and the brave, searchin’ for a dream

When all they found was sand and stone

Where rivers once had been

They tried to follow nomads, like ghosts in desert dreams

And suffered in a sunburnt land…

Down in the last frontier

They sent them from the motherland

Into there greatest fear

To live and die for freedom’s cry

Down in the last frontier

A drover rides in search of work, across the sweeping plains

A farmer kneels in a hungry church

As his children prey for rain

Back in a land across the sea

They found another war

They asked the anzacs to believe

What there fightin’ for

They sent them to another land

Into there greatest fear

To fight and die for freedom’s cry

And for the last frontier

People in the lucky land, who searched for paradise

Are reachin’ out for somethin’ more

And don’t believe there lies

The promises of hope and work, still ringing in there ears

The hungry and homeless cry

Down in the last frontier